Fresh & New
July 3, 2004
In the Austin Farmers' Market for this week . .
Vegetables: Let's get most of this week's produce on your 4th of July grill! There's new shelled summer peas, green beans, and more and more tomatoes, green squash, yellow squash, chard, shalots, green onions, summer garlic, summer greens (Animal Farm), herbs of all kinds, and microgreens. The corn and potatoes are diminishing, so come now; possibly the last week for corn.
Fruits:It's a bumper crop for peaches, and there are still blackberries. Blueberries are continuing to be harvested from Al and Edna's farm in Lexington and expect to see Chickamaw Farm of McDade to come with ORGANIC blueberries this week. Many farmers also have cantaloupes and watermelons. Stay tuned for our Watermelon Festival next week, July 10th!
Meats: Austin Gourmet Poultry and Gamebirds brings delectible fresh birds (he sells out every time--come early!). Thunderheart Bison has lean, natural buffalo, and Arrow K Ranch features longhorn beef. Loncito Cartwright and his Loncito's Lamb Will be here July 10th. Eggs are promised from Alexander Family Farm this week; they have had adverse affects of rain and heat. Chautauqua Foundation smoked salmon is here too.
Dairy: The Veldhuizen Family Farm makes all natural artisan cow cheeses including gouda, Texas Swiss, Cheddar, a signature hard cheese, string cheese and yogurt cheese. Also at the Market is Pure Luck Grade A Dairy's national award-winning cheeses of chevre, farmstead, feta, and much more in delectible flavors with enhancements from their own organic certified herbs and vegetables.
Baked Goods: Breads, rolls, cookies, brownies, granola and much more from more bakers than you can shake a bread stick at: Texas French Bread offers artisan bread loaves and rolls and cookies; Sticky Toffee Pudding Company features the pudding, among other European-style savories and sweets; new comer Mary Louise Butter's Brownies are definitely Austin; and Glenda's Gourmet Cakes are made from Glenda's family recipe.
Flowers: The beautiful Hill Country flowers of Lost Truffle Farm in Dripping Springs will keep your spirits high.
Plants: We've got the plants! Herb Shack is a mainstay for culinary herbs you can grow and the Blooming Idiots bring the plants that your grandmother loved and cared for. Look for plumerias and cacti from our vendors including Duggerhill Plumerias and Spicewood Spines.
Assorted: Welcome locally grown Taco Shack to the Market this Saturday (they apologize for missing last week)! Paul Hieb, a cousin of the owners, will be selling at the Market. There are salmon wraps and salmon pasta salad, carmalized onion tarts, and fresh baked quiches. Fresh squeezed all natural juices and revitalizing coconut milk in the shell, herbal teas, fresh brewed coffee, hibiscus mint tea, cooling chai tea, Aster's Ethiopian wraps and dishes, gift cakes, Oaxacan tamales, frozen traditional tamales, vegetarian curries, vegetables in crepes, jams and jellies, salsas and honey.
Crafts and arts: Paintings, jewelry, metal work, soy candles, cigar box and cloth purses, wooden bowls, wood furniture, stained glass and clayworks.
Services: NEW CAFÉ AREA by the band, great for people watching; Massage (ahhhh...); knife and scissor sharpening with valet (leave your knife at Alexander Farm booth and pick it up when you're done shopping); portraits by Isabel Goode-DeBlanc when she is there (ALL her revenues from the made-at-the-market portraits are donated to the Market); and herbalist Ginger Webb and her associates.
We are a local growers-only market and the farmers only sell what they grow. Satisfy your connection to the food you eat and meet the farmers directly!
posted June 30, 2004 | permanent link to this article
June 26, 2004
Taken from the Wednesday Market, the downtown crowd loves farmers mid-week as well!
In the Austin Farmers' Market for this week . .
Vegetables: There's new shelled summer peas, special cantaloupes from Big Foot Farm (look for them in the parking lot passage), green beans, and more and more tomatoes, green squash, yellow squash, chard, green onions, spring garlic, summer greens (Animal Farm), herbs of all kinds, beets, turnips, and microgreens. The corn and potatoes are diminishing, so come now. New farmers signing on, see the "Meet the Farmer" section for names.
Fruits:Join the peach tasting at the Taste the Place action from 10 am to 12:30 pm in the Classified Parking driveway. Peaches continue to be the prize fruit this week and there's plenty to go around as eight growers enjoy a bumper crop and come sell it at the Market. Blueberries are continuing to be harvesting from Al and Edna's farm in Lexington. Blackberries are getting into the 'thin' part of their harvest, though, so get 'em and freeze 'em. Indian Hills comes with a small amount of organic peaches, Millberg Farms sold out of their organic peaches at Wednesday's market.
Meats: Austin Gourmet Poultry and Gamebirds brings delectible fresh birds (he sells out every time--come early!). Thunderheart Bison has lean, natural buffalo, and Arrow K Ranch features longhorn beef. Loncito Cartwright and his Loncito's Lamb Will be THIS WEEK, June 26th. He skips next week. Eggs provided from pastured chickens from Alexander Family Farm. IF HE IS OUT--as we don't know until Fridays, then go to other farmers who have eggs in the Market--ask at the Info Booth. Chautauqua Foundation smoked salmon are here too.
Dairy: The Veldhuizen Family Farm makes all natural artisan cow cheeses including gouda, Texas Swiss, Cheddar, a signature hard cheese, string cheese and yogurt cheese. Also at the Market is Pure Luck Grade A Dairy's national award-winning cheeses of chevre, farmstead, feta, and much more in delectible flavors with enhancements from their own organic certified herbs and vegetables.
Baked Goods: Breads, rolls, cookies, brownies, granola and much more from more bakers than you can shake a bread stick at: Texas French Bread offers artisan bread loaves and rolls and cookies; Sticky Toffee Pudding Company features the pudding, among other European-style savories and sweets; new comer Mary Louise Butter's Brownies are definitely Austin; and Glenda's Gourmet Cakes are made from Glenda's family recipe.
Flowers: The beautiful Hill Country flowers of Lost Truffle Farm in Dripping Springs will keep your spirits high. But Lolly Lewis' spirits are low because she got hit with another 2 inches of rain the week of June 5, followed by last week's deluge. Let's hope for a dry spell in Cameron!
Plants: We've got the plants! Herb Shack is a mainstay for culinary herbs you can grow and the Blooming Idiots bring the plants that your grandmother loved and cared for. Look for plumerias and cacti from our vendors including Duggerhill Plumerias and Spicewood Spines, and ocassionally the Herb Garland will be selling specialty herbs.
Assorted: Welcome locally grown Taco Shack to the Market this Saturday! Paul Hieb, a cousin of the owners, will be selling at the Market. There are salmon wraps and salmon pasta salad, carmalized onion tarts, and fresh baked quiches. Fresh squeezed all natural juices and revitalizing coconut milk in the shell, herbal teas, fresh brewed coffee, hibiscus mint tea, cooling chai tea, Aster's Ethiopian wraps and dishes, gift cakes, Oaxacan tamales, frozen traditional tamales, vegetarian curries, vegetables in crepes, jams and jellies, salsas and honey.
Crafts and arts: Paintings, jewelry, metal work, soy candles, cigar box and cloth purses, wooden bowls, wood furniture, stained glass and clayworks.
Services: NEW CAFÉ AREA by the band, great for people watching; Massage (ahhhh...); knife and scissor sharpening with valet (leave your knife at Alexander Farm booth and pick it up when you're done shopping); portraits by Isabel Goode-DeBlanc when she is there (ALL her revenues from the made-at-the-market portraits are donated to the Market); and herbalist Ginger Webb and her associates.
We are a local growers-only market and the farmers only sell what they grow. Satisfy your connection to the food you eat and meet the farmers directly!
posted June 23, 2004 | permanent link to this article
June 19, 2004
In the Austin Farmers' Market for this week . .
Vegetables: There's new shelled summer peas, special cantaloupes from Big Foot Farm (look for them in the parking lot passage), green beans, and more and more tomatoes, green squash, yellow squash, chard, spinach, green onions, spring garlic, herbs of all kinds, beets, turnips, kolrabi, microgreens and sprouts. The corn and potatoes are diminishing, so come now. New farmers signing on, see the "Meet the Farmer" section for names.
Fruits: Peaches continue to be the prize fruit this week and there's plenty to go around as growers enjoy a bumper crop and come sell it at the Market. Blueberries are continuing to be harvested from Al and Edna's farm in Lexington. Blackberries are getting into the 'thin' part of their harvest, while plums are just starting. Indian Hills comes with a small amount of organic peaches.
Meats: Austin Gourmet Poultry and Gamebirds brings delectible fresh birds (he sells out every time--come early!). We apologize that you came to meet him last week, but the flooding rains required lots of on-farm fence mending last week. Thunderheart Bison has lean, natural buffalo, and Arrow K Ranch features longhorn beef. Loncito Cartwright and his Loncito's Lamb Will be HERE NEXT WEEK, June 26th. He skips this week. Eggs provided from pastured chickens from Alexander Family Farm, and from other farmers who have layers. Chautauqua Foundation smoked salmon are here too. Check out our new educational signs for the animal husbandry practices at each stall that applies.
Dairy: The Veldhuizen Family Farm makes all natural artisan cow cheeses including gouda, Texas Swiss, Cheddar, a signature hard cheese, string cheese and yogurt cheese. Also at the Market is Pure Luck Grade A Dairy's national award-winning cheeses of chevre, farmstead, feta, and much more in delectible flavors with enhancements from their own organic certified herbs and vegetables.
Baked Goods: Breads, rolls, cookies, brownies, granola and much more from more bakers than you can shake a bread stick at: Texas French Bread offers artisan bread loaves and rolls and cookies; Sticky Toffee Pudding Company features the pudding, among other European-style savories and sweets; new comer Mary Louise Butter's Brownies are definitely Austin; and Glenda's Gourmet Cakes are made from Glenda's family recipe.
Flowers: The beautiful Hill Country flowers of Lost Truffle Farm in Dripping Springs will keep your spirits high. But Lolly Lewis' spirits are low because she got hit with another 2 inches of rain the week of June 5, followed by last week's deluge. Let's hope for a dry spell in Cameron!
Plants: We've got the plants! Herb Shack is a mainstay for culinary herbs you can grow and the Blooming Idiots bring the plants that your grandmother loved and cared for. Look for plumerias and cacti from our vendors including Duggerhill Plumerias and Spicewood Spines, and ocassionally the Herb Garland will be selling specialty herbs.
Assorted: There are salmon wraps and salmon pasta salad, carmalized onion tarts, and fresh baked quiches. Fresh squeezed all natural juices and revitalizing coconut milk in the shell, herbal teas, fresh brewed coffee, hibiscus mint tea, cooling chai tea, Aster's Ethiopian wraps and dishes, gift cakes, Oaxacan tamales, frozen traditional tamales, vegetarian curries, vegetables in crepes, jams and jellies, salsas and honey. We will have a surprise new vendor for you next week!
Crafts and arts: Paintings, jewelry, metal work, soy candles, cigar box and cloth purses, wooden bowls, wood furniture and clayworks.
Services: NEW CAFÉ AREA by the band, great for people watching; Massage (ahhhh...); knife and scissor sharpening with valet (leave your knife at Alexander Farm booth and pick it up when you're done shopping); portraits by Isabel Goode-DeBlanc when she is there (ALL her revenues from the made-at-the-market portraits are donated to the Market); and herbalist Ginger Webb and her associates.
We are a local growers-only market and the farmers only sell what they grow. Satisfy your connection to the food you eat and meet the farmers directly!
posted June 15, 2004 | permanent link to this article
June 12, 2004
In the Austin Farmers' Market for this week . .
Vegetables: There's piles of corn, special cantaloupes from Big Foot Farm (look for them in the parking lot passage way), green beans, and still tomatoes, green squash, yellow squash, chard, spinach, green onions, spring garlic, herbs of all kinds, beets, turnips, kolrabi, microgreens and sprouts. New potatoes abound. New farmers signing on, see the Meet the Farmer section for names.
Fruits: Peaches will be the prize this week and many to come as local growers enjoy a bumper crop and come sell it at the Market. Blueberries and blackberries are continuing to be bountiful and ready to jump into your shopping bag. More than eight farmers with peaches are here this week, two or more farmers have blackberries. Al Lang comes with his delectible blueberries and other fruit. Indian Hills comes with a small amount of organic peaches.
Meats: Austin Gourmet Poultry and Gamebirds brings delectible fresh birds (he sells out every time--come early!), Thunderheart Bison has lean, natural buffalo, and Arrow K Ranch features longhorn beef. Loncito Cartwright and his Loncito's Lamb Will be HERE THIS WEEK, June 12th. He skips every other week, so get some now because he will skip June 19th. Eggs provided from pastured chickens from Alexander Family Farm and Chautauqua Foundation smoked salmon are here too. Check out our new educational signs for the animal husbandry practices at each stall that applies.
Dairy: The Veldhuizen Family Farm makes all natural artisan cow cheeses including gouda, Texas Swiss, Cheddar, a signature hard cheese, string cheese and yogurt cheese. Also at the Market is Pure Luck Grade A Dairy's national award-winning cheeses of chevre, farmstead, feta, and much more in delectible flavors with enhancements from their own organic certified herbs and vegetables.
Baked Goods: Breads, rolls, cookies, brownies, granola and much more from more bakers than you can shake a bread stick at: Texas French Bread offers artisan bread loaves and rolls and cookies; Sticky Toffee Pudding Company features the pudding, among other European-style savories and sweets; new comer Mary Louise Butter's Brownies are definitely Austin; and Glenda's Gourmet Cakes are made from Glenda's family recipe.
Flowers: The beautiful Hill Country flowers of Lost Truffle Farm in Dripping Springs will keep your spirits high. But Lolly Lewis' spirits are low because she got hit with another 2 inches of rain the week of June 5, followed by this week's deluge. Let's hope for a dry spell in Cameron!
Plants: We've got the plants! Herb Shack is a mainstay for culinary herbs you can grow and the Blooming Idiots bring the plants that your grandmother loved and cared for. Look for plumerias and cacti from our vendors including Duggerhill Plumerias and Spicewood Spines, and ocassionally the Herb Garland will be selling specialty herbs.
Assorted: There are salmon wraps and salmon pasta salad, carmalized onion tarts, and fresh baked quiches. Fresh squeezed all natural juices and revitalizing coconut milk in the shell, herbal teas, fresh brewed coffee, hibiscus mint tea, cooling chai tea, Aster's Ethiopian wraps and dishes, gift cakes, Oaxacan tamales, frozen traditional tamales, vegetarian curries, vegetables in crepes, jams and jellies, salsas and honey.
Crafts and arts: Paintings, jewelry, metal work, soy candles, cigar box and cloth purses, wooden bowls, Wood furniture and clayworks.
Services: NEW CAFÉ AREA by the band, great for people watching; Massage (ahhhh...); knife and scissor sharpening with valet (leave your knife at Alexander Farm booth and pick it up when you're done shopping); portraits by Isabel Goode-DeBlanc when she is there (ALL her revenues from the made-at-the-market portraits are donated to the Market); and herbalist Ginger Webb and her associates.
We are a local growers-only market and the farmers only sell what they grow. Satisfy your connection to the food you eat and meet the farmers directly!
posted June 8, 2004 | permanent link to this article
June 5, 2004
In the Austin Farmers' Market for this week . .
Vegetables: Nearly a ton of tomatoes!! Get into the Tomato Festival this week and get your tomatoes. Special fingerling potatoes grown by Lost Truffle Farm in red and yellow. Getting more green beans in this week, green squash, yellow squash and still greens themselves! Still have chard, mustards, spinach, green onions, spring garlic, herbs of all kinds, beets, turnips, kolrabi, microgreens and sprouts. New potatoes abound. New farmers signing on, see the Meet the Farmer section for names and places.
Fruits: Get out your cobbler recipe for BERRIES! Blueberries and blackberries and throw in bushels and bushels of PEACHES too. More than six farmers with peaches are here this week, two or more farmers have blackberries. Al Lang comes with his delectible blueberries and other fruit. Indian Hills comes with a small amount of organic peaches. A new major peach grower from Stonewall joins us this Saturday, Judge Edwards.
Meats: Austin Gourmet Poultry and Gamebirds brings delectible fresh birds (he sells out every time--come early!), Thunderheart Bison has lean, natural buffalo, and Arrow K Ranch features longhorn beef. Loncito Cartwright and his Loncito's Lamb Will be back NEXT WEEK, June 12th. He skips every other week. Eggs provided from pastured chickens from Alexander Family Farm and Chautauqua Foundation smoked salmon are here too. Check out our new educational signs for the animal husbandry practices at each stall that applies.
Dairy: The Veldhuizen Family Farm makes all natural artisan cow cheeses including gouda, Texas Swiss, Cheddar, a signature hard cheese, string cheese and yogurt cheese. Also at the Market is Pure Luck Grade A Dairy's national award-winning cheeses of chevre, farmstead, feta, and much more in delectible flavors with enhancements from their own organic certified herbs and vegetables.
Baked Goods: Breads, rolls, cookies, brownies, granola and much more from more bakers than you can shake a bread stick at: Texas French Bread offers artisan bread loaves and rolls and cookies; Sticky Toffee Pudding Company features the pudding, among other European-style savories and sweets; new comer Mary Louise Butter's Brownies are definitely Austin; and Glenda's Gourmet Cakes are made from Glenda's family recipe.
Flowers: The beautiful Hill Country flowers of Lost Truffle Farm in Dripping Springs will keep your spirits high, with accompaniment from Lollypop Farm--let's welcome Lolly back this Saturday, after a long trial of 5 weeks away while she was under water and suffered hail damage. There's also snap dragons from McCall Creek Farms.
Plants: We've got the plants! Herb Shack is a mainstay for culinary herbs you can grow and the Blooming Idiots bring the plants that your grandmother loved and cared for. Look for plumerias and cacti from our vendors including Duggerhill Plumerias and Spicewood Spines, and ocassionally the Herb Garland will be selling specialty herbs.
Assorted: There are salmon wraps and salmon pasta salad, carmalized onion tarts, and fresh baked quiches. Fresh squeezed all natural juices and revitalizing coconut milk in the shell, herbal teas, fresh brewed coffee, hibiscus mint tea, cooling chai tea, Aster's Ethiopian wraps and dishes, gift cakes, Oaxacan tamales, frozen traditional tamales, vegetarian curries, vegetables in crepes, jams and jellies, salsas and honey.
Crafts and arts: Paintings, jewelry, metal work, soy candles, cigar box and cloth purses, Wood furniture and clayworks. Check out the very comfortable wood furniture by David Rocha!
Services: NEW CAFÉ AREA by the band, great for people watching; Massage (ahhhh...); knife and scissor sharpening with valet (leave your knife at Alexander Farm booth and pick it up when you're done shopping); portraits by Isabel Goode-DeBlanc when she is there (ALL her revenues from the made-at-the-market portraits are donated to the Market); and herbalist Ginger Webb and her associates.
We are a local growers-only market and the farmers only sell what they grow. Satisfy your connection to the food you eat and meet the farmers directly!
The Austin Farmers' Market is a project of Sustainable Food Center (SFC), a 501 (c)(3). The Market is co-sponsored by the City of Austin, City of Austin Parks and Recreation Dept., and the Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Dept. Thanks again to the generous contributions and partnerships with the Austin Museum of Art and Classified Parking (for the farmer truck area gratis), Action Figure, Community Investment Corp., Downtown Austin Alliance and many more major sponsors in the downtown area and in the media (KGSR 107.1FM and KXAN-TV). We invite you to become 'Sustaining Supporters' of SFC to invest in the market so that we can continue to offer this public service in a great public place, promote the farmers and vendors at the market, and cover our operating costs. Find out more at the Information Booth. And for all the 100+ volunteers, some of them coming weekly, Thank You!
posted June 2, 2004 | permanent link to this article
June 5, 2004
In the Austin Farmers' Market for this week . .
Vegetables: Nearly a ton of tomatoes!! Get into the Tomato Festival this week and get your tomatoes. Getting more green beans in this week, green squash, yellow squash and still greens themselves! Still have chard, mustards, spinach, green onions, spring garlic, herbs of all kinds, beets, turnips, kolrabi, microgreens and sprouts. New potatoes abound. New farmers signing on, see the Meet the Farmer section for names and places.
Fruits: Get out your cobbler recipe for BERRIES! Blueberries and blackberries and throw in bushels and bushels of PEACHES too. More than five farmers with peaches are here this week, two or more farmers have blackberries. Al Lang comes with his delectible blueberries and other fruit. Indian Hills comes with a small amount of organic peaches. Another major peach grower from Stonewall joins us this Saturday, Judge Edwards.
Meats: Austin Gourmet Poultry and Gamebirds brings delectible fresh birds (he sells out every time--come early!), Thunderheart Bison has lean, natural buffalo, and Arrow K Ranch features longhorn beef. Loncito Cartwright and his Loncito's Lamb Will be back NEXT WEEK, June 12th. He skips every other week. Eggs provided from pastured chickens from Alexander Family Farm and Chautauqua Foundation smoked salmon are here too. Check out our new educational signs for the animal husbandry practices at each stall that applies.
Dairy: The Veldhuizen Family Farm makes all natural artisan cow cheeses including gouda, Texas Swiss, Cheddar, a signature hard cheese, string cheese and yogurt cheese. Also at the Market is Pure Luck Grade A Dairy's national award-winning cheeses of chevre, farmstead, feta, and much more in delectible flavors with enhancements from their own organic certified herbs and vegetables.
Baked Goods: Breads, rolls, cookies, brownies, granola and much more from more bakers than you can shake a bread stick at: Texas French Bread offers artisan bread loaves and rolls and cookies; Sticky Toffee Pudding Company features the pudding, among other European-style savories and sweets; new comer Mary Louise Butter's Brownies are definitely Austin; and Glenda's Gourmet Cakes are made from Glenda's family recipe.
Flowers: The beautiful Hill Country flowers of Lost Truffle Farm in Dripping Springs will keep your spirits high, with accompaniment from Lollypop Farm--let's welcome Lolly back this Saturday, after a long trial of 5 weeks away while she was under water and suffered hail damage. There's also snap dragons from McCall Creek Farms.
Plants: We've got the plants! Herb Shack is a mainstay for culinary herbs you can grow and the Blooming Idiots bring the plants that your grandmother loved and cared for. Look for plumerias and cacti from our vendors including Duggerhill Plumerias and Spicewood Spines, and ocassionally the Herb Garland will be selling specialty herbs.
Assorted: There are salmon wraps and salmon pasta salad, carmalized onion tarts, and fresh baked quiches. Fresh squeezed all natural juices and revitalizing coconut milk in the shell, herbal teas, fresh brewed coffee, hibiscus mint tea, cooling chai tea, Aster's Ethiopian wraps and dishes, gift cakes, Oaxacan tamales, frozen traditional tamales, vegetarian curries, vegetables in crepes, jams and jellies, salsas and honey.
Crafts and arts: Paintings, jewelry, metal work, soy candles, cigar box and cloth purses, Wood furniture and clayworks. Check out the very comfortable wood furniture by David Rocha!
Services: NEW CAFÉ AREA by the band, great for people watching; Massage (ahhhh...); knife and scissor sharpening with valet (leave your knife at Alexander Farm booth and pick it up when you're done shopping); portraits by Isabel Goode-DeBlanc when she is there (ALL her revenues from the made-at-the-market portraits are donated to the Market); and herbalist Ginger Webb and her associates.
We are a local growers-only market and the farmers only sell what they grow. Satisfy your connection to the food you eat and meet the farmers directly!
The Austin Farmers' Market is a project of Sustainable Food Center (SFC), a 501 (c)(3). The Market is co-sponsored by the City of Austin, City of Austin Parks and Recreation Dept., and the Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Dept. Thanks again to the generous contributions and partnerships with the Austin Museum of Art and Classified Parking (for the farmer truck area gratis), Action Figure, Community Investment Corp., Downtown Austin Alliance and many more major sponsors in the downtown area and in the media (KGSR 107.1FM and KXAN-TV). We invite you to become 'Sustaining Supporters' of SFC to invest in the market so that we can continue to offer this public service in a great public place, promote the farmers and vendors at the market, and cover our operating costs. Find out more at the Information Booth. And for all the 100+ volunteers, some of them coming weekly, Thank You!
posted June 1, 2004 | permanent link to this article
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